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In October 2006, NFL club owners approved a plan to stage up to two international regular season games per season beginning in 2007 and continuing through at least 2011. [33] The New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins played at Wembley Stadium in London on October 28, 2007, for the first of these games.
The two division/conference regular season champions then played in the NFL Championship Game. If two teams tied for the division/conference championship at the end of the regular season, then a one-game playoff was played to determine who would advance to the NFL Championship Game. [20] [21]
In 2017, the NFL shortened overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for regular season games with the intent of reducing the risk of injury. [52] [53] Through Week 13 of the 2024 season, a total of 109 regular season games went to overtime under these rules, 7 (6.4%) of which ended in a tie.
NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. [129]
Players of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have the lowest win–loss percentage (.406) in the NFL regular season. The following is a listing of all 32 current National Football League (NFL) teams ranked by their regular season win–loss record percentage, accurate as of the end of week 18 of the 2023 NFL season.
Until the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, the regular season ended in mid-December with the championship game two weeks later. The league would move the game to Dec. 26 if there was a conflict with the ...
The NFL season begins Thursday, Sept. 5 with the NFL Kickoff game between the Ravens and Chiefs. It is a rematch of last year's AFC championship game, won by the Chiefs. NFL Week 1 games
The concept of the NFL champion playing in an opening game was not altogether new, however. From 1934 to 1976, the first game of the pre-season was the Chicago All-Star Game, an exhibition match featuring the previous season's NFL champions against an all-rookie team of college all-stars held annually in Soldier Field in Chicago.